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Is secrecy. and conducting your advance in a short period of time trying to meet all the criteria required to establish a safe environment, but do it with the highest level of secrecy to ultimately protect and prevent those looking to do you harm, the ability to know what your plans are. >> what you are getting at here,ed the fascinating point, i didn't think of the disaster stop analogy. i'll footnote it. the disaster stop, because we don't have the full portfolio of things available to us. if you bring a president to a stayed zone, surprise is your best asset. if the enemy don't know you are...

Influence in the trump white house? "the wall street journal" first broke the story. >> part of this is certainly looking at what these donors gave and what they expected or received. but it's also partly about what happened with the inaugural committee's expenditures. >> reporter: this all apparently stems from the raid on former president trump attorney michael cohen's office. according to "the wall street journal," investigators seized a conversation of a conversation between cohen and a woman, a former adviser to melania trump, and one of the key planners for donald trump's 2017 inaugurati...

>> i think he's playing a losing hand, john. it all started backing with that meeting with nancy pelosi. my interpretation maggie, was that nancy pelosi outmaneuvered him in that will conversation there on national television. he basically backed himself into a corner under her pressure. and said i will proudly shut down the government and ever since then, people have been saying most recently in a major poll that came out today by 47-33, people blame the republicans in congress or blame trump for the shut down. they blame trump 47% blame trump. 33% blame the democrats. and another 8% blame re...

Staff. we had three times as many staff and we put on four times as many events. so where that money went, i couldn't tell you. >> it has to go somewhere though. doesn't it? >> it ought to. if i were a donor, since they put on so many -- they put on fewer events than we did, the two ways you raise money in an inaugural are by ticket sales and by donors. since they did you know, four times fewer events than we did, that's proportionally a lot less money they're raising from ticket sales than donors. most of their money came from donors. if i were a donor, i'd like to know where that money went....

It because it doesn't have money for a wall it, just deepens the sense that he's just holding out you know, out of stubbornness and ego. >> maggie on the subject of things weighing on president's mind, abby was reporting before about the stock market. he called from air force one because he was pleased when the market went up 1,000 points. however is, what i think it shows is an underlying anxiety over the huge market swings and particularly the market drop the last month or so. >> look we reported that he in his complaints about jerome powell that the fed chair, that he described him as turni...